Every musical act has influences. The Beastie Boys and A Tribe Called Quest influenced each other. Punk bands from the U.K. influenced garage bands in Southern California and vice versa. Reggae and dub influenced each other.
What are your influences? That’s what we talked about in Helping and Listening Skills this week. We came up with a great list and I liked it so much I took a picture of it.
I asked the students to tell me about the things that influence them. What do they value? Why do they do what they do; love what they love? This is the list they came up with:
Parents
Environment
-Friends
-Neighborhood
-Peers
-Religion
Culture
Schools
Food/Nutrition
Media
Mental Illness
Life Experience
-Observation
Socio-Economic Status ($$$)
Books
Music
Relationships
Friendships
Family
-Uncles
-Aunts
-Brothers
-Sisters
-etc.
Role Model
-Coach
-Minister
-Teacher
Law
Government
Health
Medication/Drugs
Language
Sleep
Fashion
Freedom
Travel
Pets
Sex
Arts
-Pictures
-Painting
-Dance
Entertainment
Perception
The point I want to make in this class is that you cannot know any of these things about yourself or anyone else unless you first learn how to listen.
A great Master Mind group is one that’s committed to honoring and respecting each other and that includes listening unconditionally and without judgment. It is honoring a person to trust that they know what’s best for their own life.
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When you think about it, every musical act you know of is using the Master Mind principle whether they realize it or not. They are joining together as a team with a combined vision. You can use the same principle and make some truly rockin’ things happen in your life.
Do you have a creative project you want to complete? Do you want to find a purpose for your life?
If so, I invite you to come over to my brand new page called Start a Master Mind Group.com. I’m offering 4 freebies to get you started so you can get a sense of what the Master Mind is all about.
2010 is the year that all girls and women must break free from body image and weight issues. Stop wasting your life in self-hatred and learn to feel fabulous now.
I know weight and eating issues can be a heavy burden so I made this light-hearted video to encourage you to drop the weight and embrace the joy, fun and freedom of being alive today.
Lyrics to What It Feels Like for a Girl by Madonna
Silky smooth
Lips as sweet as candy, baby
Tight blue jeans
Skin that shows in patches
Strong inside but you don’t know it
Good little girls they never show it
When you open up your mouth to speak
Could you be a little weak
Chorus
Do you know what it feels like for a girl
Do you know what it feels like in this world
For a girl
Hair that twirls on finger tips so gently, baby
Hands that rest on jutting hips repenting
Strong inside but you don’t know it
Good little girls they never show it
When you’re trying hard to be your best
Could you be a little less
Chorus x2
Do you know what it feels like for a girl
Do you know what it feels like in this world
For a girl
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My most recent step toward my dream of being a T.V. talk show host was to submit an audition video to Oprah. If you believe in supporting women as they pursue their “impossible” dreams, vote for me on Oprah.com today.
This song Nobody Knows Me by Madonna (see concert video on YouTube) pumps me up and gives me the courage to live my life on my own terms. I hope it does the same for you.
Nobody Knows Me by Madonna Lyrics
I’ve had so many lives
Since I was a child
And I realize
How many times I’ve died
I’m not that kind of guy
Sometimes I feel shy
I think I can fly
Closer to the sky
No one’s telling you how to live your life
But it’s a set up until you’re fed up
This world is not so kind
People trap your mind
It’s so hard to find
Someone to admire
I… I sleep much better at night
I feel closer to the light
Now I’m gonna try
To improve my life
No one’s telling you how to live your life
But it’s a set up until you’re fed up
It’s no good when you’re misunderstood
But why should I care?
What the world thinks of me
Won’t let a stranger
Give me a social disease
Nobody, nobody knows me
Nobody knows me
Nobody knows me
Nobody knows me
Like you know me
No one’s telling you how to live your life
But it’s a setup, and I’m just fed up
It’s no good when you’re misunderstood
But why should I care?
What the world thinks of me
Won’t let a stranger
Give me a social disease
I… I sleep much better at night
I feel closer to the light
Now I’m gonna try
To improve my life
Nobody knows me
Nobody knows me
Nobody knows me
Like you know me
Don’t want your social disease
Millions of us buy the albums, we crank up the CD’s in our car, we go to the concerts but how many of us truly have the courage to live our lives boldly and authentically? If you have a dream that you want to make come true, now is the time to listen to the soundtrack that is your life. It is time to listen to yourself.
If you need help getting unstuck, try the Create the Life You Want hypnosis download. Available at icreatehabits.com
There’s a lot of talk about the Law of Attraction lately. In the book
Ask and It Is Given by Esther and Jerry Hicks, there is an Emotional Guidance Scale that can help you identify your current emotional state. The list has 22 items. The top entry includes Joy, Love, Appreciation, Knowledge, Empowerment and Freedom. When you’re in this emotional state, you are more likely to attract good things into your life.
The bottom entry on the list includes Fear, Grief, Depression, Despair and Powerlessness. Worry is #14 on the list.
If you’re a worrier, you probably have some of the symptoms of anxiety:
Sleeplessness
Tension
Eczema
Insomnia
Sweaty plams
Racing heart and
Racing mind
Medication should be a short term solution for these symptoms at best. Read the fine print. Most of your medications have an overwhelming amount of side effects including death!
Hypnosis can help you decrease anxiety symptoms and all the power to do it is in your own mind under your own control.
On March 3, 2009 I’m going to give a free workshop about hypnosis for anxiety. If you’d like to download a PDF flier for the event, click here. Or, you can read my previous blog where I gave all the details.
In the meantime, if you feel anxious, remember to “reach for relief” as Esther and Jerry Hicks would say. See if you can do or think something that will make you feel a little bit better, until you eventually reach a state of Joy, or at least close to Joy.
Stress takes all the joy out of life. If you’ve got a lot of stress and it’s bogging you down, hypnosis can help. Hypnosis is about relaxing, chillin’ and creating an inner reality that helps you feel positive. When you change your inner world, the outer world changes too….or at least your perception of it does.
I’ll be doing a free hypnosis workshop in Long Beach on March 3 where you can learn more. For details and a downloadable flier, click here.
A few weeks ago I had a very enjoyable phone interview with Dr. Judy Krings. She was interviewing me regarding my book, Donate Your Weight. Dr. Judy and I really hit it off and in this one hour recording we got to talk about all kinds of things including behavior modification, hypnosis, self-love, spirituality, law of attraction and much more.
Having this interview made me excited about podcasting again. In a separate blog I’ll tell you about the return of the Donate Your Weight podcast with co-host Dr. Marjorie Miles.
In the meantime, you can subscribe to the show on iTunes by clicking on the iPod. That way, you’ll get the first show with the new show format on March 3. We’ll be talking about how to stop the struggle with weight and eating and how to use your self-talk to create the life you want.
Today I felt inspired to get out Stephanie’s Tantric Toning video and get my Chi flowing. The subtitle for this video is The Stress-Free Workout. I was thinking, “hey, my hypnosis CD is called Stress-Free Slimming. The two of these products together would be so inspiring!”
I’m really dead serious about it. Because for what seems like eternity I have been hating and condeming my body and everything about me day and night, night and day.
Now, if the Law of Attraction is true, how can I possibly attract anything good to myself if I am in CONSTANT struggle? That makes about as much sense as dancing and trying not to dance.
I’ve created a program called Donate Your Weight and it’s not about trying to be perfect or reach an unrealistic ideal. It’s about listening to yourself. It’s about going back to who you were before everyone started piling an overwhelming amount of rules and regulations on top of you. It’s about being free.
In our Prevention and Education Class (HS255) we talked about cultural shifts regarding smoking cigarettes. We talked about how as early as 20 years ago you could smoke anywhere you wanted, anytime, even airplanes and busses. Cigarette ads were everywhere and cigarette companies used to publicly sponsor events.
Fast forward 20 years to attitudes about smoking today. They have changed drastically.
I have been a concert goer for 25 years. I grew up smoking cigarettes in clubs. I had a cigarette holder with a clasp. Sometimes I used one of those “sexy” cigarette holders just like Audrey Hepburn. Smoking was a part of my wardrobe. Yet, this weekend, at the Nine Inch Nails concert when one bored man sitting near me decided to light up, I immediately wanted to flee.
Many people, smokers and non-smokers alike express a similar sentiment when subjected to smoking in public. How and why does a shift like this happen? Well, for starters, you might want to pick up a book titled The Tipping Point because I think it explains everything.
On another note, I quit smoking by using hypnosis and now I hypnotize people to quit smoking (among other things). So, it is only natural for me to end here and leave you with a very popular and socially acceptable form of hypnosis: recorded information played repeatedly.
Notice how singer Tex Williams isn’t upset with the dangers or smell of cigarettes, only the fact that they take up so much time and that he’s tired of waiting for people to get another smoke. Today you can’t see anything related to smoking without also hearing how bad it is for you. That’s the power of lobbying and repetition at work. Enjoy the video!
For the past few weeks I’ve been posting the Donate Your Weight Podcast in this blog because I thought some of the readers might be interested in listening.
The podcast is about loving your body, breaking free from diets and diet mentality and being liberated from food and body obsession so you can live your life in peace, happiness and contentment.
I decided to move the podcast player and podcast announcements to the Change Your Chi network which includes an on-line forum, blogs, support groups and much more. Join now while the membership is free and get access to:
**Motivational podcasts
**Motivational tips
**Healthy Recipes
**A Support Group especially for people interested in Donate Your Weight
All you have to do is become a member at Change Your Chi Network. There is no cost. You can also access other resources such as:
**Feng Shui
**Financial Freedom is Sexy
**Great American Detox Diet
**Book Group
**Joyful Business
and more.
When you think about it, every musical act you know of is using the Master Mind principle whether they realize it or not. They are joining together as a team with a combined vision. You can use the same principle and make some truly rockin’ things happen in your life.
